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Final Fantasy 9. It's my favourite in the series, and it's gotten lots of rereleases in its original form. But it would be nice if it got a more polished updated remaster.
Though I would be afraid of how modern Square sensibilities might change the pretty iconic character designs.
Isn't FF9 being remade with more or less the classic gameplay and look?
oh really?! I hadn't heard but that's great if so! I really hope they do keep the classic look then. :)
The main reason this world/could work is because it IS so quirky, that they couldn't fuck it all up like they have everything else progressively more since ff9 came out. Square peaked with ff7 and took a nosedive after 10, change my mind. Baseless uneducated hot take: I blame Enix. Either that, or they still haven't figured out how to actually bring fun JRPG gameplay into the 21st century without ruining it and making it generic and dull. Ff11 onwards lack intimacy, value, and quiet - they're tacky, cheap, and feel disingenuous.
So, ff9 getting a remaster, they couldn't mess up something that's the antithesis of their modern stuff so badly that that quirky game loses ALL of it's appeal.
I say all of this knowing this dissent and criticism will upset people, but I've been staying quiet on this for far too long and it has to be said.
I don't know, I think it's possible they do mess it up, I would worry they would update the character designs to be more "marketable" (the cast of FF9 really are a weird looking bunch, but in a good way)
But I hope you're right!